Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a serious disease happened to
many old people nowadays. Taking care of the patients with
AD can be both physically and mentally demanding. At the
same time, it is also important to allow the patients to live
on an independent life. To help the AD patients, we have
designed and developed a healthcare tool called SmartMind,
to provide help to the patients for important activities and
report emergence situations to their relatives and/or caregivers
immediately. This can minimize the potential risks on the
users and proper actions can be taken promptly. By checking
the activity list tracked in SmartMind, we can assess the
self-caring abilities of the users and their normal activity
habit (NAH). These information can be used as references in
assessing the users and determining the activities that may be
allowed to be handled by the users. Note that allowing the AD
patients to perform simple living activities is highly important
both to reduce the degeneration rate of their memories and
improve the stability of their mood. An important future work
is to find some patients who have AD to further test and
validate the system. Clinical test in the Nanjing Brain Hospital
is under planning.